{"id":362,"date":"2011-03-07T19:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoinreads\/?p=362"},"modified":"2017-11-07T20:34:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:34:16","slug":"liam-killion-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2011\/03\/07\/liam-killion-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Liam Killion &#8217;11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>The Monster of Florence: A True Story<\/i> by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi has to be one of the most riveting books I have ever read. Douglas Preston is a successful crime novel writer, but this book is a very real account of Preston\u2019s first hand experiences while researching a string of unsolved murder stretching over nearly 20 years. I enjoyed this book because it gives in depth detail about so many parts of Italy: their culture, their justice systems, and the prevailing philosophy of life. At the same time, Preston meticulously lays out all the evidence and retraces the genesis of a depraved killer, and there are some moments where I literally could not stop reading, especially toward the book\u2019s finale. I would recommend this book to anyone who has enjoyed nonfiction crime books like Truman Capote\u2019s <i>In Cold Blood<\/i> or Roberto Saviano\u2019s <i>Gomorrah<\/i>, or anyone who is interested in learning more about Italy\u2019s equally complex society and legal system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Monster of Florence: A True Story by Douglas Preston and Mario Spezi has to be one of the most riveting books I have ever read. Douglas Preston is a successful crime novel writer, but this book is a very real account of Preston\u2019s first hand experiences while researching a string of unsolved murder stretching &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/2011\/03\/07\/liam-killion-11\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Liam Killion &#8217;11&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcl.bowdoin.edu\/bowdoin-reads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}